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Felecity vs Felipe

American parents have registered 31,958 Felipes since 1880, against 84 Felecitys. Felipe is still ahead, with 244 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Felecity against Felipe, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Felecity Felipe

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Felipe has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Felecity had 18 and Felipe had 502.

Side by side

  Felecity Felipe
Total US births 8431,958
Most in one year 18606
Babies in 2025 under 5244
Estimated living today 8026,000
Median age today 2431
Peak year 19992001
Best rank 5,661st girls417th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked955th
First recorded 19991880
Girls / boys 84 / 0133 / 31,825

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Felipes alive today are over 31; half the Felecitys are over 24. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Felecity and Felipe.